New Website Design!
 

Surprised not to see anything here about the new Website design....

I actually like the new site. It's pleasant to the eye, intuitive and makes lots of stuff easily available. Kudos, Marriott. Given the colossal cruster fluck that was the last design change, it's a little shocking to see such a good effort this time.

It is a Beta rollout? I'm seeing the 2010 edition.

Nothing for me!?

I am seeing it and it's spectacular! I'm on an Apple. Maybe it's only been switched for Apple?

Others may disagree, but IMO, it's a vast improvement. The floating boxes are gone.

A little history for those who may not remember: I started the threads on FT and MI last time there was a site change, griping about the moving boxes, the disappearance of the missing stay box and ridiculous wheel of reservations. The fact I'm enthusiastically embracing this new site tells you Marriott has impressed a critical eye with this update.

The site is uncluttered. Links to everything you need are right there, and there are pictures serving as links grouped together, but nothing moves and drop down menus do not open on top of other things and the layout is clean.

Firefox on Windows shows old site, Safari on Windows shows new site...

Chrome shows old site.

Here is the direct link to view the new website. Works on IE, Chrome, Firefox...

http://www.marriott.com/marriott/index_h.mi

On Mac I'm seeing old site with floating windows on Chrome, Firefox and Safari. New site access probably targeted.

Still getting the old site, Safari on a MacBook Pro.

IE9 (I had to dig it out) still shows old site on Win7. Same as FF20.

I can access it using the link above though.


Could it be - a program website change that FT'ers applaud? That's been a rarity IME. I'm going to start exploring.

Thanks for the link!

Looks cool, we'll see how it goes.

Got it with the link from #7. I like it. Much less sexy, much more functional.

Just accessed it through the link above, using IE. A note to those who do that: It's much sharper and cleaner on Safari for me. It's still a vast improvement, looking in IE, but it's probably not finished for IE yet, as a couple things are askew.

Thank goodness for the PTB at MI who finally realized their site is a tool, not a destination. With business tools, ease of use and lack of clutter are best.

I like it, especially the bigger input boxes.

Still getting the old site through the bookmark, but accessed the new one through the link in #7 above.

Looks like a great improvement, but I didn't do much looking through the site in detail. Certainly the "first impression" is much better (to me at least).

Only difference I'm seeing is the splash page, everything else (account, hotel list, etc) is still the old style, I guess it's a step. If they'd just fix the dang "you need to login before you can do anything" issue I'd be happy.

Most of the pages accessed through links are the same, but there seems to be more direct access to information pages directly through the homepage, rather than having to go to an intermediary page.

Some of the existing pages seem to match this new homepage, while others seem to be in the "moving and dropping boxes" style that never made sense.

As stated previously, IMO, a vast improvement. Let's hope they move forward changing the rest of the site.

Chrome displays the new one as of Apr 21.

I made an award reservation for a stay on points - the bed preference is so hidden - I missed it the first time and I had to cancel and rebook.

Also the availability of 'hotels nearby' has moved to somewhere new.

I guess I need to get use the new one.

Say it isn't so. Marriott actually reduced the number of mouse clicks to get to meaningful information. Now all they have to do is redo their Change/Cancel Reservations section to get rid of having to click the mouse 3 or more times to get to a reservation detail. What a PITA. It used to take 2 mouse clicks, 1 click to get to the list of reservations and then 1 click to see the reservation details. New Coke, you gotta love it.

I finally got it to work after logining and then putting http://www.marriott.com/marriott/index_h.mi in the url bar. My first impression is why it has changed again. I am just used to the new one from 1-2 years ago and now it will take that long to get used to this one...

THe old site came up for me because the address was cached. I cannot make a reservation from the old site - when you hit the "find" button on the old site it hangs.

New site worked fine, accessed from the link in this thread.

I cleaned my cache and when I pulled up the website this morning to check something, it still brought up the floating boxes website (using Chrome). I didn't try making a reservation though, so can't report on the hanging.

Cheers.

^^ :) :cool:

Did you notice the reservation box no longer has city, state, country... just one field called location now. Seems OK at first glance, but time will tell.

I hope they did some thorough testing to include regression testing which has been their downfall in the past. Add new feature which works great, but kill a few other things in the process. As I said, time will tell.

The front page is clearly designed for tablets and not for laptops, as you first think that you got version intended to visually impaired person.

When you place your cursor in the location field, the other fields appear, including state and country.

Not the case for the home page I received on Firefox. It is the floating cards screen but the reservation search card only has location field. No state or country, and they don't appear when I have focus in the location field. I can enter just Jordan (country) or just state, or city. Of course when you think about it on the old iteration when you entered a city it automatically populated the other fields based on your selection.

IE has the old card format with city, state and country fields.

I am not seeing the new un-carded format at all unless I go click on the link from the previous post.

One only needs to look at Marriott IT's track record to wonder what they are thinking/doing. So far the changes appear to be benign, but still strange that there are multiple changes going on to 2 different home page variations none the less.

Going to www.marriott.com on Chrome (and not the specific link in this thread), I get the floating boxes & in the reservation box all the usual stuff - ie, city, state, country, check in/out date, # of guests, rooms, Marriott #, etc.

Haven't tried accessing the website from my tablet to see if it's different.

Cheers.

FF20 is fine for me. A single location field, but when I click in the single field, state, country, etc., all appear.

Correct, the list lookup displays the matching selections to whatever you type as the city field had done previously, the list of suggestions in many cases includes city, state and country, but there are no longer separate state and country fields. Unless in your case the card morphs and creates them when you have focus in the location field, but that is not the case for me in FF. Actually the help feature probably describes how the new single location field works better than I do - click on the ? to the right of the field.

Previously if I wanted to see hotels in Jordan, I would select Jordan from the country field. Now I just enter Jordan in the location field. I do see this as an improvement as there are less key strokes, which means 2 less fields to navigate (tab) through.

Yes, that's exactly what happens.

Initial page load
http://richs.smugmug.com/photos/i-Tk...-TkFprrS-L.jpg



Then, click in the Location box:
http://richs.smugmug.com/photos/i-Fn...-Fn83NfZ-L.jpg

I see, but that is not the floating boxes/cards screen I was discussing. Hence the reason they differ.

In my case I was responding to Sharon's post which was discussing the floating boxes/cards web site as shown below. That home page, the floating boxes/cards one, has also changed and now in my case on FF only has the location field which does not morph additional fields. On IE, as mentioned in my previous post, the OLD floating boxes/cards home page is displayed with three City, State and Country fields.

Again I will ask; so what is going on with Marriott IT and the myriad of home page variations.

OK, I just went to the home page found at the link provided in post #7; which, while it is similar in format to the images in CPRich's post above, it doesn't morph the State and Country fields, but instead has two long fields neither of which have labels, both only the little search magnifying glass on the right. Both fields do list look ups of destinations based on ones input.

I don't like that one at all as the two identical search fields are confusing and the date fields are a bit quirky too as the arrows that bring up the calendar cover up the next field. Weird. It looks like a java page I might have constructed in my intermediate java course, before the instructor showed me how to do it correctly. LOL

All of the above is on FF 20.0.1.

WHY
 

Must be the new IT consultant 'idiots' It does not work with the asia browsers....

IME, it works very well with Safari and very well on Macs (Chrome). It does not work well in IE, and works kinda well on Firefox. And I'm using too many browsers right now, but that's due to another bad IT department's issues. (My company, which will not allow us to upgrade to a recent IE version.)

On an Ipad using Safari it's great ....a big improvement IMO.

Bobette

Whatever happened to the new website?

I liked the larger input boxes.

The new website just appeared for me today using Internet Explorer.

:mad: looks like yet another website change, but where's the "site" link (that used to be in the upper righthand corner)??